ABSTRACT
This final chapter is a call for making the Nordic model a basis for emancipatory, regional and global political action. My case is only superficially connected with recent attempts by Tony Blair and Bill Clinton-with the assistance of Anthony Giddens (1998)—to resuscitate the Third Way.1 Rather, the argument of this chapter is based on a causal model, which explains the decline of the Nordic model. Moreover, I also make a case for re-defining many of the ideals of Norden in the context of the legitimation problems-if not crisis-of the socalled Washington consensus.
